{"id":100,"count":11,"description":"The Cardiac Surgery Department at Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital is a highly specialized referral center for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, utilizing both open and minimally invasive surgical techniques.\r\n\r\nSince its inception in 2000, the department has been a cornerstone of advanced cardiovascular surgical care at our institution. It has been part of the Clinical Management of the Heart Area since 2012 and maintains a strong commitment to quality, innovation, and providing the best possible patient care.\r\n\r\nThe department performs between 550 and 650 surgeries annually, evolving into a leading referral center and assuming responsibility for the Girona region since 2014. Currently, it serves a population of 1,600,000 across the Barcelon\u00e8s Nord and Maresme areas, as well as the Girona region, for complex and emerging pathologies.\r\n\r\nSince its inception, the Cardiac Surgery Department has maintained a 24\/7 on-call system, with two surgeons on call, a surgical nursing and perfusion team, and anesthesia specialists. The Service also has a specialized critical care unit with an 8-liter oxygen tank.\r\n\r\nFollowing accreditation, the Service was granted accreditation in 2009 by the Ministry of Health to provide specialized medical training and education, training seven surgeons in recent years. Currently, there are four residents (one per surgeon) in training.\r\n\r\nSince its creation, more than 14,000 surgeries have been performed, and in recent years the portfolio of services has been expanded to include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Minimally invasive mitral and aortic surgery.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Structural heart disease with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) - in conjunction with the hemodynamics unit - <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">in non-femoral access, (such as carotid or axillary access),<\/span> as well as mitral valve disease, referred to the few hospitals in the country with the Tendyne\u2122 transcatheter program.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Concomitant atrial fibrillation program.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Short and long-term care program.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Heart failure program \u2013 Care of long-term (LVAD) with destination therapy.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Complex aortic pathology (aortic arch).<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Aortic and mitral valve repair program.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAs for the link and involvement in research, the Cardiac Surgery Service actively collaborates with the ICREC research group, belonging to the IGTP, with different clinical trials and with the collection of samples and studies of cellular regeneration. In addition, it is part of the hospital's CPR-ECMO program that supports the Intensive Care Medicine Service with the Coronary Unit.\r\n<h3>Facilities<\/h3>\r\nThe department includes two Class A operating rooms, with the addition of a hybrid operating room in 2014, allowing for increased complexity in structural heart disease procedures. These operating rooms are available 24\/7, 365 days a year, and are covered by the emergency department.\r\n\r\nA multidisciplinary team of surgeons, anesthesiologists specializing in cardiac surgery and echocardiography, surgical nurses, and perfusionists provide comprehensive and reliable data, ensuring safe, precise, and high-quality care.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, the service maintains its own database, which is updated daily and reviewed monthly and annually by internal auditors. This ensures comprehensive and reliable data, maintaining excellence in outcomes and supporting research activities. The Service annually submits surgical results to the Spanish Society of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery (SECEE) in conjunction with the European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) to ensure the level of excellence and quality that the Service has pursued since its inception, by conducting the relevant audits.\r\n\r\nIn addition to clinical practice, the unit carries out extensive teaching activities, training resident physicians (MIR) and medical students from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and conducts outstanding research with studies and publications on clinical research projects, both locally and in international clinical trials, making a significant contribution to innovation in the field of surgery.","link":"https:\/\/icor.cat\/en\/etiqueta_equipo\/cardiac-surgery\/","name":"Cardiac Surgery Department","slug":"cardiac-surgery","taxonomy":"etiqueta_equipo","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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